St Mary

EXTERIOR: chancel on north and south walls has one 2-light 2-centre arched window with Y-tracery and lean-to north vestry with reset C15 head stops.

North side of nave, which has retained more medieval masonry, has (from east) a C18 2-light mullioned window with beaded surround, 3-light Perpendicular Gothic window and late C15/C16 square-headed window opening with double-chamfered surround and chamfered mullions, the latter with later replacement in part.

C19 Norman Revival-style doorway to north, beneath much restored medieval 2-light window with C19 plate-tracery head

chancel arch remodelled in C17, with semicircular arch set on moulded medieval (C14) piers

FITTINGS: late C19 brass eagle lectern

The brass plaque is one of two here; this one lists the fallen in the Great War.

© Neil Owen

pulpit made up from C17 fragments

A wooden pulpit, made from seventeenth century pieces.

© Neil Owen

MEMORIALS: wall memorials mostly of C18 and C19 date, with one of 1639.

STAINED GLASS: some C19 stained glass, including east window and red glass margin panes to chancel

fine First World War memorial windows to each side of nave: north-east to Francis Welford Ward, south-east to Arthur Harold Hobbs by Humphries Jackson and Ambler Ltd of Manchester.

A Major in the First Regiment, Welsh Regiment, killed at the battle of Loos in 1915, this window tribute was made by Humphries, Jackson and Ambler Ltd of Manchester. Interestingly, it features a Roman soldier. See [[[8042460]]] for the other window.

© Neil Owen

Notable example of a C13 font, with circular top on chamfered octagonal base with 8 well carved early Gothic style heads.

The font is an example of an older type, possibly Norman: the circular upper section sits on an octagonal base with eight carved early Gothic style heads. The font was believed to have been removed during the Civil War in the late seventeenth century, defaced by Parliamentarian soldiers and left out as a cattle trough.

© Neil Owen